Language City reveals the New Yorkers working to save their endangered mother tongues and offers a new way of viewing language.
Atlantic Monthly
9780802162465
Atlantic Monthly
9780802162465
Language City reveals the New Yorkers working to save their endangered mother tongues and offers a new way of viewing language.
In Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York author Ross Perlin examines a duality of the world’s most linguistically diverse city. Home to over 700 languages, 21st-century New York City is a vital nexus where people from all over the world can find others speaking their mother tongue; but the…
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